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‘Try actually fighting’: Democrats face voters’ fury at town halls. (lite.cnn.com)
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Democratic lawmakers have faced eruptions of anger at town hall meetings across the country this week, as constituents have coupled their fury over President Donald Trump’s actions with deep frustration over what they see as a feckless Democratic response.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 28 points 14 hours ago

Chickens can at least peck a bit. These dems aren't even that tough

[–] zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 46 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Another constituent, Donya Williams, complained Ivey didn’t know the people in his district well enough — because he admitted earlier that he didn’t know who popular podcaster Joe Rogan was until the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign.

This explains so much. They are as ignorant of the current state of things as the "apolitical" voters who thought Trump would be fine this time.

[–] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

French aristocracy? Who ordered French aristocracy?

[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 32 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Well holding signs and doing nothing didn't work?

[–] faceula@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

May I suggest a major and I mean major leaflet campaign?

[–] AlbertSpangler 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Steady on. Next you'll be saying it's time for the slogan t-shirts.

[–] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago

Nah, we need to bring in the big guns for this one. Stickers with slogans.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 11 hours ago

Are we allowed to glue the leaflets to bricks?

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago

Is an M67 a Leaflet?

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 63 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

"We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas."- The Democratic Party

[–] Vari@lemm.ee 32 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

“But please donate to my campaign to STOP this. We will soon, I promise”

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

My god I am so sick of the emails.

I used to get emails like "Contribute to X because I will fight for our schools to provide school lunches to everyone!" And I'd donate.

Now, the emails are just "Donald wants to kill education. GIVE ME MONEY."

So you can use that money to buy another sign that says "Pweeze stop"?

[–] middgatsby@lemm.ee 12 points 16 hours ago

The amount of “gib monies plz” messages I got infuriated me. Like you aren’t doing diddly squat why would I ?!?

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

yeah, they have gotten so much fucking money. I could have done more good just spending that same amount on potatoes, or paying people to dance.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Like, I think someone in the DNC should be out there, putting out answers. What did they do with the money they got? Where did it go? Time for an audit.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 2 hours ago

Most expensive concert tour ever.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

I think we know they wasted it all on ridiculous useless bullshit, and even if they had won, it would have been more useful to spend it on potatoes.

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 37 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I think we may may finally be getting our message across. Here's why:

Last night, Adam Schiff, one of the Democratic lawmakers I respect the most, was on Kimmel, and was very rough not just on the HitlerPig Crime Family, but also Chuck Schumer.

But what really struck me, was that the very honorable, polite, and respectful Adam Schiff took the opportunity to basically say "Fuck You" directly to the president - TWICE!

Kimmel asked him if he had said thank you to HitlerPig, and Schiff said he used a different two-word phrase, but one of the words was "You," and everyone got it and laughed. At the end of his interview, he made another joke that was another very obvious disguised "Fuck You."

They were obviously baiting HitlerPig into a tirade, but seeing Schiff go on national TV and saying Fuck You to HitlerPig twice marks a very new direction in messaging for the Democratic party. I hope this is the beginning of pivoting from appeasement to Hard Ball.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Schumer and Pelosi don't have street fighting skills, they are from the era where Republicans weren't all violent dixiecrat trash.

Schiff and the newer ones don't bring harsh words to gunfights.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 points 11 hours ago

They're boomers. They never had to fight dirty. Theyre part of the Democrat gameplan to compromise on everythin

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

That's awesome. I've started to get some social media feeds on YouTube from Adam Schiff and they've been pretty provocative and direct, which is desperately needed.

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 47 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Ocasio-Cortez/Sanders 2028

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 12 points 13 hours ago

I feel that Sanders is probably too old and that he can pass the torch on at the next election. It's sad, but I still don't think we need an 80 year old running for office.

[–] RufusFirefly@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I think after Biden and then Trump, people will be completely fed up with old white guys. I seriously doubt even Santa Claus could get elected. I'm in my 60s and a huge Bernie fan but we need some younger people on the ticket.

[–] thepresentpast@lemm.ee 21 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I think Walz/Ocasio-Cortez would be a much more popular and palatable suggestion for the electorate, even though I personally prefer your proposal

[–] whiskeytango@lemm.ee 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Nah, we tried appealing to the center shit and that got us nowhere. Go hard on restoring working class America. Fuck racism, sexism, and ignorance - that shit got us a slow slide down to where we are now .

Kick the fucking oligarchs out and tax the fuck out of them. Rich should mean enough money to be very comfortable and never worry again, but not enough to buy elections.

[–] C45513@lemm.ee 43 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

if Americans are going to just sit and wait, the US won't be recognizable in 4 years, and there sure as hell won't be a free and fair election

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Many Americans are not. There’s protests happening everyday, across the country. It’s, not being talked about but it’s absolutely happening.

[–] whiskeytango@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Besides bluesky, can we start seeing more of the protests here on lemmy? And see it flood the pages here? If someone just posts one a day from each location, that will kick start enough people to join

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Be safe. Be discreet. The administration is violent right now and accelerating. They are violating civil and human rights. Get involved in your local offline chapters, please. These places are being watched too and pictures may be used to nab others that attend. They also may be used/posted for predatory reasons. Protect yourselves and your comrades in arms. Unless you know what you are doing (and even then think 2x), do not bring your phone to protests. Keep it charged in a place you frequent.

[–] dwalin@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I get what you're saying, but if a protest is not seen, was it really effective?

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

It's working when they don't want people to see it. The revolution will not be televised. This isn't something for media. That is cheap and doesn't actually change things. People need to leave the house, build community, collaborate and organise, in person. Social media won't protect you when ICE knocks, but a neighbour will.

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[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 96 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don’t see people screaming at Bernie, AOC or Tim Walz. Wonder why that is…. Oh maybe it’s because they’re actually willing to notice the frustrations of their base.

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[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 35 points 23 hours ago

They need to understand that they are fighting for the country. And when they don't treat the Republicans and billionaires as the enemy they deprive us of the power to fight at the ballot box.

So we have to go to the soapbox. Like lemmy.

And when that fails, many of us (not me) will find they have nothing else to lose and go to the ammo box, like mangione is accused of.

And the rest of us will go to the jury box and vote not guilty.

[–] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 208 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (54 children)

Time for the neoliberal world order to end. Want Republicans to actually be scared of Democrats? Fill the party with socialists.

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